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Nixon and Mrs. Gandhi, daughter of Nehru, were not intended by fate to be personally congenial. Her assumption of almost hereditary moral superiority and her moody silences brought out all of Nixon's latent insecurities. Her bearing toward Nixon combined a disdain for a symbol of capitalism quite fashionable in developing countries with a hint that the obnoxious things she had heard about the President from her intellectual friends could not all be untrue. Nixon's comments after meetings with her were not always printable...
Ever since its first meeting, attended by Tito, Indonesia's Sukarno, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, at Belgrade in 1961, the so-called nonaligned movement has usually espoused a form of neutrality with a distinctly leftist flavor. The rhetoric has sputtered with buzz words like "anticolonialist" and "progressive." But official pronouncements increasingly have also been careful to try to keep both superpowers at haughty arm's length with even-handed warnings against Soviet "manipulation" as well as U.S. "imperialism...
Less than three years after she had been swept from office by an Indian public outraged by the Emergency and the heavyhanded execution of the sterilization policy promoted by her son Sanjay, Mrs. Gandhi could once more be the "daughter of the nation," successor to her father Jawaharlal Nehru and head of the political dynasty that has helped shape India's destiny for more than 50 years...
...Chaliapin, Boris was named for his father's most famous role, Boris Godunov. After studying art in Moscow, he spent ten years polishing his skills in Paris. In 1935 he emigrated to America, and seven years later he sold TIME his first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete a portrait in seven to 15 hours, usually working from a photograph. A realistic painter, Chaliapin was an implacable and voluble foe of modern abstract art: "I want a linoleum design...
...months before the invasion, Jawaharlal Nehru, then India's Prime Minister, cast aside his policy of peaceful coexistence with Communists. He demanded that the Chinese quit the plateau and ordered his own army to occupy it. Attempts to resolve the dispute broke down, and units skirmished in Kashmir. But even during the attack, the nations maintained diplomatic relations-as Peking and Hanoi have done in the present crisis...